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Kerbal space program - I installed my mods and got my orbital strike stations into sustainable high orbit, with fuel left, all unmanned, missiles trained on the surface, got my command and staging center up (1,598 parts!) and disposed of all orbital debris. I now have 90 strike station up, one for every four degrees of possible orbits, all with 12 missiles onboard and a self destruct sequence for when they need to be taken down. I fucking hate wreckage.

I had to turn my textures and effects all the way down. I did it on my friends alienware, GTX770 2Gb.

The entire first five hours were done with two computers working in tandem to perfect the strike stations and command center. Two hours getting the center up, and then the rest was mostly supervising MechJeb (boo, I know) getting the strike stations up.

If anybody cares, we just toyed with the CSS for romfars lazor weapons. The missiles have a 12 minute burn, maximum speed at 1.5 KM moving parallel to the surface of just shy of 15 KM/second, three billion mile range, 10 KM killzone that will destroy anything in it, and another 5 on top off that that will toss rovers like toys and tear wings off planes. Oh, and finally, a camera window you can drag around o show where the missile is. Each missile weighs 2.4 tons and each strike station is a grand total of 90 tons on the launchpad. Space station was launched in pieces totally up (including failed pieces and things we removed before final parts count) just shy of 1,000 tons, 3/4 of which is fuel and batteries!

I grew up in a rural area with my little sister, mom, and grandma. There were no friends within walking distance and never anyone to play RISK (or anything else) with. I played RISK by myself. Sometimes I would be two colors, sometimes all six. I would have epic battles with myself that would last for up to a week.

If you like Risk, I suggest checking out Diplomacy. It's pretty similar to other war boardgames except there is a negotiation period built between each turn. If you think Risk takes a long time to finish...

Same here. I actually organized a tournament among my friends for this particular game. I got a cheap trophy and even added two extra continents (Antarctica and Oceania) to the board. I even went to the trouble to recalculate the army bonuses for each continent.

The game had a total of nine players. It lasted 7 hours. I placed third, but was eliminated in the same turn as the second place player.

Its funny cuz I had the exact same experience. I let them take india while I took europe. Our trade income was obscene. Then they turned coat. 5 full armies and 3 fleets showed up on their door immediately. Those cunts.

It sucks for me trying to play civ 4 after playing civ 5. It's just so different. I can, but not for as long as I could civ 5. Specifically changing to hex tiles, which I really do like. Same for Fallout 3 back to 2 and 1 I think for a lot of people. Fun but different,.

Civ 4 was great as well, but one thing I absolutely loathed about previous civ games was that units could be stacked. The graphic would show a unit of riflemen on a tile, but in reality there was 5 or 10 different types of units hiding underneath! I know you could hover over to show the list, but still!

I love that Civ 5 changed this.. but I really miss culture taking over cities.

I hate that Civ 5 changed that. A mountain range with only one opening, and your enemy on the other side? Lol, I'm a third party, and I'll just store my unit on that tile, blocking the passage way for the units backing up the catapults you've already sent.

Civ 5 with my friends is the only game I can stand to play for more than an hour at a time. Everything else gets grating after 45 minutes. But Civ? Holy shitballs, we'll all start playing at 5pm and finish around 10am the next morning. On quick settings.

I remember playing Gran Turismo on the PS2, my friend and I used to take it in turns to do the 12 hour races in b-spec mode leaving the Playstation on over night. Needless to say, our parents weren't impressed but getting 100% completion was sweet.

You don't understand. I'd wake up everyday at like 6, go through some Baal runs, pvp, etc. go to school, come back, and I would no life the shit out of the game. I loved the game so much, and to me, nothing can compete with it. I also tried path of exile. Me no like.

This game was responsible for a precipitous drop off in my grades between 7th and 8th school years. I remember logging on to b.net on a Friday night on my dial up modem and not going to bed until the late hours of Sunday evening .

This is going to sound ULTRA-lame. As a manly-man (welder) I had just gotten out of jail (DWI), broke up with my girlfriend, and had gotten fired. I was all alone in my apartment so I went and bought Sims 3. I played that shit and drank Budweiser for a solid month my sophomore year in college (hardly even went to class much less "out"). It had something to do with "living the life I wanted" I suppose. I had a family with my ex, great job, mansion, and every luxury imaginable. It finally hit me one day that the whole situation was sad as fuck and broke the game into pieces. I was depressed in every sense of the word. I was broke, kicked down, and generally miserable. I just decided to see the good in every situation I could. Eventually I came out of that depressing "funk" and left the Sims behind for good.

Played 72 hours once - no sleep. I loaded up on coffee and bentos at 7/11 (was living in Japan) and literally ninja'd Stratholme (was a rogue) repeatedly with other rogues or bear thing (was it a Druid?) because we could all conceal and just wipe out the bosses.

Got most of the blue armor set in that weekend. This is like 7 years ago and I can still remember my (now wife) gf coming back on Sunday night like "you seriously haven't moved from that chair?"

She almost left me over that game. I remember when she came back one night and told me she was moving out, I eBay'd my account the next day and never logged in again. No pansy goodbye on the forums, no notes to friends in the game or an explanation to the guild masters. Just cold-turkey quit that shit.

I just put it up for sale and when I had the money I have the guy my login information.

I changed all my billing info of course, removed all personally identifiable information, and changed the password to something temporary such that the buyer would never be able to try and access any of my other accounts.

The money cleared and he gained control of my character. I never tried to login again and never thought another thought about it.

I got paid about $160 iirc which was equal to the game plus the annual fee (I paid for the year in advance) so I essentially played WoW for an entire year for free.

At the time I had a really renowned rogue on my server. Epic everything, tons of cash and was highly respected. In the premier guild, etc etc.

116 hours straight - was trying to see how long I could go without sleep. Started hearing muffled sounds and whispers and shadowy creatures would dart around in my peripherals, as well as a perpetual feeling of numbness and slight nausea after around the 80 hour mark.

Didn't play in vanilla but definitely did 85-90 when Mists came out for Server First! That was only like 18 hours though. I randomly stayed awake for 44 hours when Firelands came out to down Ragnaros first week.

Back in the day me and a few friends would go 2-3 days without logging off, just staring at the screen. Clicking. Oh how we yearned for a 99...Safe to say, they're not as pleasing to achieve as I thought they would be.

Most fun of my childhood. I remember stringing 24k magic longbows, having to type 14 in every time and click over and over again. My first 99 was Fletching. That game robbed so much of my time, but I loved it.

have you played the 1940 versions? There are two, one for the eastern theater and one for the west. They add three more countries. You can combine them. My friends got them for Christmas, I doubt I'll leave one of their basements for days.

I have that version, it's set up on my friends basement right now and we've been playing for the past week or so. Just an hour or so after work when we can. If your near Cape Cod, MA we're always looking for more players!

I've done that with all of their games except for the first Uncharted. I also did as close as possible to a single sitting with mass effect 2. I literally only stopped to sleep or eat and I did every... Goddamn... Quest...

Playing Assassin's Creed II with my best guy friend for 15+ hours. We went to his place, got into jim-jams, and started playing in the morning. When his roommate came back at 2am after being out all day, we were still playing and had finished off a container of Rollo ice cream, some Sapporo Ichiban Chicken Ramen & 2L of Chocolate milk.

And then it had that stupid fucking ending and we nearly lost our minds.

I guess this doesn't really count, though, as we had to get food and went to the bathroom. But I've already typed it so now you have to read it.

Mass Effect 2. I had played the first one and it definitely grabbed me, but nothing like Mass Effect 2 did. I still remember when I first played it in the summer of 2010...such a fantastic two weeks. I think one night I must have played from 2pm to 5am the next morning. I just couldn't put it down.

I got the Trilogy Edition for Christmas last year on 360. I only stopped to sleep and let the 360 cool down every six hours for ten minutes. I played through the entire series on Hard, then Insane, never leaving my house and usually not leaving my room for three weeks straight.

I have never been more emotionally wrecked in my life than I was when I finally finished the Trilogy all the way through for the first time.

Beyond: two souls- started it and finished it without leaving the room once. Didn't relies how bad I had to pee till the end. It's like an awesome movie game. My brother got me heavy rain today so Im gonna wait till after Boxing Day to play it just in case

Warning: they have many points in heavy rain that never get explained. They put stuff in, realized that the plot twist sucked, and removed the twist. They didnt remove the plot points that lead to the twist however.

After buying it me and my friend decided to complete the campaigns for he first time on expert difficulty. The Dark Carnival map took us around 8h and 45min because we decided to complete an achievement with the gnome and were playing with 2 bots so very often we were 2 teammates short.

It's the content man, I remember being blown away with all the stuff and activities (oh the activities) you could do. Hell the game knew it too, the custom content and object creators were some of the most popular/detailed aspects of the game.

I didn't actually play the mod, but from what my friend has said (Whose played both extensively) it has, better textures, more lootable houses, but less loot in each house. The map is the same ish, but there are some new towns. It's been a really enjoyable game so far.

After that long it is a matter of who over extends and gets caught first. Do you sell boots or not? Buy a GA or more dmg? Sell the GA after you have died and used it? Its fun but really sucks at the same time.

Uno. My little sister and I would play it, only the two of us, because there was nobody else around. Because we tweaked the rules to apply for two people, each game would last about an hour, and we would have to reshuffle the deck at least 4 times before one of us came out victorious.

I finished both Bioshock Infinite and Spec Ops the Line in one sitting (seperate times, but relatively close). Also, I once spent 18 hours on a single ironman playthrough of XCOM just because training roulette gave me this godlike sniper and I wanted to see how it would play out.